IsUserInRole from WC Portal to consumed JSF Portlet

Question

Hi experts,
I'm trying to retrieve, the J2EE Roles [ Enterprise Roles a.k.a  Security Realm "Groups" of a logged in user ]
from from consumer Webcenter Portal Application into a Producer JSF Portlet.I have seen there were many posts mentioning that this isUserInRole method always return false. I'm also facing the same problem.
My configurations are following -
Portlet Producer App
web.xml
<security-role>
<description>RelationManager</description>
<role-name>RM</role-name>
</security-role>
<security-role>
<description>Team Leader</description>
<role-name>TL</role-name>
</security-role>
portlet.xml
<security-role-ref>
<role-name>RM</role-name>
<role-link>RM</role-link>
</security-role-ref>
weblogic.xml /* Have tried with & without creating this descriptor, but no luck */
<security-role-assignment>
<role-name>RM</role-name>
<principal-name>RM</principal-name> /* I have defined a weblogic group by the name "RM" within defaultAuthenticator and assigned testUser to it. */
</security-role-assignment>
WC Consumer PortalApp
web.xml
<security-role>
<role-name>RM</role-name>
</security-role>
weblogic.xml
<security-role-assignment>
<role-name>RM</role-name>
<principal-name>RM</principal-name> /* Since its the same WLS Server the same group as above will hold good */
</security-role-assignment>
+ I have done the mapping of UserGroups of the Portlets to J2EE Roles of Webcenter Portal consumer during Portlet Registration process.
I have a requestScoped managedBean within my JSFPortlet where I'm retrieving the user Principal and Roles -
public String getLoggedInUser() {
FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.
getCurrentInstance();
ExternalContext ectx = facesContext.getExternalContext();
PortletRequest portletRequest = (PortletRequest)ectx.getRequest();
return ( portletRequest.getUserPrincipal().getName());
public String getPortletUserRole(){
FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext. getCurrentInstance();
ExternalContext externalContext = facesContext.getExternalContext();
PortletRequest portletRequest = (PortletRequest)externalContext.getRequest();
if ( portletRequest.isUserInRole ("RM") == true ) return "RM" ;
else return "";
Results :
The getLoggedInUser returns ""
And so does the getPortletUserRole method.
What am I missing and whether this is the correct approach to get the userRoles from PortalApp to Portlet.
Env: JDEV 11.1.1.5 , Integrated WLS
Note: I haven't done any configuration related to WS-Security between Portal App and Portlet App,_ since both are deployed to the same integrated Server.
-Reju

Answer 1

If you haven't already you have to perform user category mapping between the portal roles to portlet roles.
This can be achieved using WLST scripts.
Thanks.
Micah C.